It seems a lifetime ago. Destruction screaming through the air, deep into the city, smashing into the skyline’s metal-and-glass spines. The nation cocooning into fear, paranoia, and delusion, succumbing to …

Expanding upon the themes of the primarily instrumental Since We Last Spoke (Definitive Jux), The Third Hand finds former sampling maestro RJD2 doing his own drum programming, instrumentation, and vocals. …

The highlights of producer Mathematics’ Wu Tang and Friends: Unreleased (Nature Sounds) don’t come from Raekwon or Ghostface (though both make appearances), but rather unsung Shaolin soldiers like the currently …

New York City isn’t a place that people can leave easily. Ask Team Shadetek’s Matt Schell and Zach Tucker. In 2004, the grime/hip-hop/IDM-fusing production duo, both native Manhattanites, decamped to …

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